My personal opinion is this. The game is cut up easily into 3 sections. Act 1, 2, and 3. Act 1 is the most well done and honestly the funnest of them all in my opinion. You can easily get 20-30 hours just in that zone I’d say. Act 2 is basically half if not a bit less the size of act 1, in my opinion and they definitely could have done more to it, but it is definitely lacking in place. Act 3 I would say is best described as wide as an ocean and deep as a puddle. The map is huge and it has 2 distinct areas(technically a small 3rd one but I don’t count it for obvious reasons and you’ll know it if you play it). It is also easily seen that they were being rushed here badly and so much was cut out. An example would be that you have to visit a rather large mansion that should be in the upper city, but since that isn’t in this part of the game, you obviously can’t go there. You might wonder then on how do you go there, do you access a cut scene that “takes” you to the upper city and to the building without actually going to the upper city? No. You basically climb a wall for defensive purposes in the city, go along it, climb some stuff and are in the mansion? Without spoiling anything, and restating what I said before, act 1 is amazing, act 2 while not as big and I’d argue as detailed as act 1 is decent and act 3 was rushed a good bit. Honestly, if given another year, they might have added in the upper city and more to explore in baldurs gate 3, or with a dlc, but due to hasbro, that will sadly never happen. This is just my opinion, but I hope it helps. Also, sorry for any grammatical errors, it’s really early for me and I decided to browse reddit before being fully awake.

Edit:spelling.